Ji Ling had a lot of lunch and was surrounded by people just now, so she had to deal with it a lot. She was not a well-rounded person, and she was not good at dealing with it. After all the trouble, she lost her appetite, so she said no, and motioned to the person.
The palace servants first gave the pastry menu to Concubine Cheng.
When Princess Cheng saw what Ji Ling said, she nodded and smiled to express her gratitude. However, she was old and had bad teeth. When she saw the menu, she read a few pages and said she would skip it.
The palace man turned around with the menu in hand and came to Ji Ling again, as if he wanted to listen to the concubine's command.
Ji Ling quickly asked her to hand it to Concubine Yu.
Concubine Yu smiled and said calmly: "Chen concubine is so polite."
Although she said so, she took the menu in her hand unceremoniously - the palace servant came in with the menu just now. He should have started asking questions from the person with the highest status, but instead he went directly to fawn over the concubine.
Already...
It wasn't until this time that Concubine Yu held the meal menu in her hands that she felt more at ease.
She looked at it carefully from top to bottom, and felt a little unhappy. She actually ordered eight kinds of cakes in one go. Then she passed the menu to the concubine. The palace lady stepped aside knowingly and saw that Concubine Yu ordered eight
In this way, with a smile on his face, he finally took the meal order, turned his back and went out, slightly raising his eyes at his companion.
Not long after the cakes came, the palace servants in Jiuzhou Qingyan led the people in the tea room to serve the four pure teas to the concubines. The so-called "four pure teas" are plum blossoms, pine nuts, bergamot, and bamboo leaves.
It is cooked with mountain spring water. The plum blossoms are noble, the bergamot is fragrant, the pine nuts are fragrant, and the bamboo leaves are elegant. The four things added together make it extremely pure and elegant.
The four pure teas are all packed in tea bowls decorated with pine, plum, bergamot and bamboo leaves. The texture of the tea bowls can be porcelain, lacquer or jade. According to the status of the concubines, the texture used is also different. Each tea bowl
It is placed in a saucer. The saucer is in the shape of an ingot. The inner wall is engraved with landscapes and pine trees. The carvings are extremely delicate and elegant. These are a batch of porcelain made by the Imperial Porcelain Factory for the Emperor's Longevity Festival.
On each person's saucer and beside the tea cup, there are various trinkets. Some are a lotus, some are a begonia, some are green leaves... On Ji Ling's plate is a small piece of baubles.
There are many lotus seeds next to the small lotus leaves. Ji Ling originally thought that this small decoration was also made of porcelain, but when he poked it with his fingers, he discovered that it was made from mung bean powder, and the lotus leaves were dyed with vegetable juice.
, lifelike, lotus seeds are tiny glutinous rice dumplings, the whole thing is edible.
After the tea was served, Ji Ling could already smell the fragrance of plum blossoms and bamboo leaves in the teacups of the people around him.
In order to prevent the aroma from "losing", the imperial tea house always keeps the lid of the tea cup closed when the tea is served - good tea is not afraid of being stuffy.
Ji Ling lowered his head and opened his teacup, only to find that the bowl he had was not Siqing tea - it turned out that this tea was slightly cold for pregnant women, and the imperial dining room had replaced it with red date tea for the concubine. The color of the tea soup was
It's still very light, and at first glance I don't dare to soak it in strong ingredients.
Don't blame me for being an imperial teahouse, you should be careful after all - Ji Ling couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
Not long after, Uranala finally came late. Everyone was so eager to wait that their necks were sore. They could not help but complain in their hearts. However, they stood up respectfully, stood together in the hall, and bowed down: "Your Majesty.
Concubine, concubine...Greetings to the Queen, may the Queen be blessed with peace and happiness!"
Ji Ling also wanted to squat, but there was a baby in her belly. Although her belly was not big yet, she was still afraid that any movement would put pressure on the baby. At this time, she held Qixi's hand, neither squatting nor squatting.
When Ulanara saw it, he said, "I'm inconvenienced, so please forgive me."
Ji Ling immediately said: "Concubine, thank you, the Queen, for your kindness!".
Ulanala glanced at her belly and then looked at her face - since Yinzhen was exempted from greeting the concubine, she had not seen the concubine for more than fifty days and nearly two months.
Now, looking at her round face, there is a warm blessing, her whole face is rosy, she is full of energy, and her skin looks even better than when she was not pregnant.
Whenever a concubine is pregnant, it is a big deal in the palace, and supplements are naturally delivered like water, but Ulanara can tell at a glance that the concubine's good complexion comes not only from careful nourishment and the care of the imperial doctor.
The emperor must have felt more sorry for her during this period.
Ulanala really couldn't imagine that in the past, Yinzhen was extremely gentle to Ji, and now that Ji is pregnant, he will naturally love her even more.
Which one is better? Hold it in your mouth for fear of melting, hold it in your hand for fear of falling.
Ulanara was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that Concubine Cheng was also in the palace.
The concubine - she is not the queen mother, and she has no children and no one to rely on. If the emperor hadn't given her some thin noodles out of memory of the old friendship, the concubine's life in the palace would have been very difficult.
When Princess Cheng saw the Queen coming, she had already extended her hand to Xi Bin, and was helped to stand up tremblingly. She came over with a smile on her face, said hello and said a few words. After a while, the emperor finally came
arrival.
All the concubines knelt down to say hello.
Uranara stepped forward, greeted Yinzhen with a smile, and joked: "The emperor is here! Today is the Wanshou Festival, you can always relax!"
As soon as she finished speaking, someone from the imperial dining room came to report in a low voice that everything had been prepared and that the time for the longevity banquet in the evening was coming soon and the banquet could begin.
Yinzhen's eyes quickly searched the crowd, and he saw Ji Ling standing on the east side, with the two personal palace maids she was used to protecting on both sides. This little man was wearing clothes today.
Wearing a solemn Jifu, with a Jifu crown on his head, he had a mature and solemn expression on his face.
It looked like Yinzhen just wanted to laugh - when he saw her, he couldn't take his eyes away.
Ulanara looked at the gentle smile that appeared on the emperor's face unconsciously, and his expression froze, and he just murmured and urged: "Your Majesty?"
Yinzhen ordered the banquet to begin.
Because the emperor has ordered that this Wanshou Festival does not need to be held in a big way. The ministers and the clan have already had a banquet at noon. At this time, the dinner in the Kyushu Qing Banquet can be regarded as a family banquet.
Yinzhen came forward and took the lead to walk to the back of the palace. Hongli, Hongzhou, Princess Shushen, and Princess Hehui were already waiting in the other side hall. At this time, they also came out one after another to pay their respects to the emperor and empress.
The Wanshou Banquet is hosted by the emperor. In addition to the queen, concubines, princes, and princesses must be appointed by the emperor before they can sit down at the banquet.
When Ji Ling was able to sit down, he saw that four items of preserves and eight items of fruit bowls had been placed on the table, as well as four items of milk, four items of Japanese cakes, four items of dried fruits, and four items of fresh fruits.
She traveled back in time for a year and had a lot of banquets, large and small. She knew that this was a palace in the Qing Dynasty. Whenever a banquet was held, there would be no shortage of opening items.
To put it bluntly, the fourth category of milk, the fourth category of cake, the fourth category of dried fruit, and the fourth category of fresh fruit are all just pictures that look good for people to see, but the fourth category of candied fruits and the eighth category of fruit bowls are different, and they are made every time
It's delicious and has different flavors.
Especially the fourth-grade candied fruit - Ji Ling was afraid of the kind that was so sweet that it would make one's teeth fall out. She remembered that when she first traveled through time, the banquet in the Forbidden City, as long as the fourth-grade candied fruit was served at the beginning, would be delicious.
It's so sweet and greasy.
But I don’t know since when, it seems that the taste of the imperial dining room has also changed. For example, the candied fruit now is obviously much better than in the past.
I am very restrained in adding sugar and oil, and it is no longer like the rich-style indulgence in the past.
The four candied fruits in front of me are: candied apples, candied apricots, candied melon, and candied osmanthus golden cake.
The eighth fruit bowl includes lychees with pine nuts, candied hydrangea plums, red fruits with pine nuts, candied loquats, green plums and crabapples, candied white cherries, water chestnuts with longevity characters, and candied red cherries—all placed in a fruit box inlaid with pearls and gems.
In the Qing palace, this was called a "jewelry box", which not only decorated the atmosphere of the Longevity Festival, but also served as an appetizer for the concubines before meals.
The white cherries are as colored as clear snow, with water drops still hanging on the branches and leaves, crystal clear; the green plums are clear blue; the red cherries are deep red, with red and green contrasting against each other, creating a dazzling light.
At a glance, Ji Ling couldn't tell which one was a ruby, which was a red cherry, which was a pearl, and which was a white cherry.
Ji Ling looked at it and suddenly realized: Why are they all what he likes to eat?
There is no fruit that I don’t like to eat.
It was so beautiful! She couldn't bear to eat it and wished she could carry this "jewelry box" back to the natural landscape.
Before she traveled through time, she had always been like this since she was a child - as long as she saw all kinds of beautiful little boxes, the little boxes couldn't move.
When I was a child, I learned the idiom "Buy a coffin and return a pearl" - "Some people in Chu sold their pearls to Zheng. They were Mulan coffins, smoked with cinnamon pepper, garnished with pearls and jade, decorated with roses, and decorated with jade. Zheng people
Buy the coffin and return the pearls."
Ji Ling read the description of the small box so many times that his hands were so itchy that he wanted to jump into the book and buy the small box!
As soon as Yinzhen turned his face, he saw Ji Ling staring at the "jewelry box" in front of him, just like a little mouse trying to drag something delicious back to its cave.
He originally thought she was greedy for the fruit, but after following her gaze for a moment, he understood.
Yinzhen couldn't help laughing and smiled - Lingling is a loser! She just likes such colorful little things.
He turned around and whispered to Su Peisheng: After the banquet, take eight "jewelry boxes" and send them to the natural painting for the concubines to eat fruits on weekdays.
Su Peisheng agreed, thinking in his mind: I'm afraid I have to go to the imperial kitchen storehouse to get the reward for the concubine, which is rare.